By Wednesday coming week, all state school children will be back in their respective classrooms, back to getting an education they all deserve and in the best place where they can get it – by...

A friend again drew my attention to how worrying the situation of an enormous number of animal species has become: they’re being exterminated: due to pollution, the destruction of their habitat,...

Take it from William Shakespeare: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts...

This week the Nationalist Party renewed itself from the very top, with the election of Dr. Bernard Grech after an inspirational campaign founded on unity and renewal. It is unwritten code in...

We cannot look at the different segments in isolation – it is all connected and once there is a weak link the whole system risks caving-in. • We need a prison edifice that can...

We’ve again been told that a main reason why court cases take so long is because there are too few judges and magistrates. Now, I was under the impression that this problem had been...

That we, as a nation, have always had a political mindset is amply testified in the history books, written by us and others. When we needed to get rid of an arrogant, greedy feudal ruler, the women...

Conflicting signals are flying around as to whether, if at all, there is any sign yet of Malta and the US being close to concluding an agreement on a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The presence in...

The Indian electorate is over 900 million and last year’s election and vote-counting took a staggering 42 days. In miniscule Malta, to get 20,000 or less PN members to cast their vote and count...

I did not stay up last night biting my nails while waiting to see who will be the new PN leader, and that’s not because I already know the outcome. The contest has been a rather uneven one,...